[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7] net/iavf: deprecate i40evf pmd

[Zhang, Qi Z]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xing, Beilei <beilei.xing at intel.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2021 4:32 PM
> To: Zhang, RobinX <robinx.zhang at intel.com>; dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Guo, Jia <jia.guo at intel.com>; Wang, Haiyue <haiyue.wang at intel.com>;
> mdr at ashroe.eu; nhorman at tuxdriver.com; Wu, Jingjing
> <jingjing.wu at intel.com>; Yang, Qiming <qiming.yang at intel.com>; Yang,
> SteveX <stevex.yang at intel.com>; Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>; Yigit,
> Ferruh <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> Subject: RE: [PATCH v7] net/iavf: deprecate i40evf pmd
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Zhang, RobinX <robinx.zhang at intel.com>
> > Sent: Monday, April 19, 2021 11:06 AM
> > To: dev at dpdk.org
> > Cc: Xing, Beilei <beilei.xing at intel.com>; Guo, Jia
> > <jia.guo at intel.com>; Wang, Haiyue <haiyue.wang at intel.com>;
> > mdr at ashroe.eu; nhorman at tuxdriver.com; Wu, Jingjing
> > <jingjing.wu at intel.com>; Yang, Qiming <qiming.yang at intel.com>; Yang,
> > SteveX <stevex.yang at intel.com>; Zhang, RobinX
> > <robinx.zhang at intel.com>; Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>; Yigit,
> > Ferruh <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> > Subject: [PATCH v7] net/iavf: deprecate i40evf pmd
> >
> > The i40evf PMD will be deprecated, iavf will be the only VF driver for
> > Intel 700 serial (i40e) NIC family. To reach this, there will be 2 steps:
> >
> > Step 1: iavf will be the default VF driver, while i40evf still can be
> > selected by
> > devarg: "driver=i40evf".
> > This is covered by this patch, which include:
> > 1) add all 700 serial NIC VF device ID into iavf PMD
> > 2) skip probe if devargs contain "driver=i40evf" in iavf
> > 3) continue probe if devargs contain "driver=i40evf" in i40evf
> >
> > Step 2: i40evf and related devarg are removed, this will happen at
> > DPDK
> > 21.11
> >
> > Between step 1 and step 2, no new feature will be added into i40evf
> > except bug fix.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Robin Zhang <robinx.zhang at intel.com>
> > Acked-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>
> > Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Beilei Xing <beilei.xing at intel.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net-intel.

Thanks
Qi